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This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-06
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This book explores what it is like to be involved in
contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with
birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view.
The author’s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological
analysis of adopters’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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This book challenges
the prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigration
policy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recent
implementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium and
United Kingdom, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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The results of the last European
Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties
across the EU.The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka,
France’s Front...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-04
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This book analyses common perceptions about drink-spiking, a pervasive fear for many and sometimes a troubling reality. Ideas about spiked drinks have shaped the way we think about drugs, alcohol, criminal law, risk, nightspots, and socializing for over one hundred...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-04
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Deliver an in depth programme of teaching for level 3 and level 4 with this classic textbook that inspires your students to go further.Written by an expert team of childcare authors, the sixth edition of this classic textbook offers an in-depth approach to Childcare and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2016-07-04
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Postmodernism in Pieces performs a postmortem on what is perhaps the most contested paradigm in literary studies. In the wake of a critical consensus proclaiming its death, Matthew Mullins breaks postmodernism down into its most fundamental orthodoxies and reassembles...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single wrongness-making feature of various social injustices that are due to social kind...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Over the past four decades - and most especially in recent years as issues of identity continue to play out across the public stage - identity theory has developed into one of the most fascinating and active research programs within the spheres of sociological social...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits?
Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in American politics. For example, the Democratic Party is thought to have a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-01
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What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, has
become a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contemporary social sciences. It has become fashionable to play down the importance of the classic text in sociology and critique the ideas of Weber, Marx and Durkheim as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-30
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Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills. Their deviancy and threat to social control has been held to be a social fact from Plato to today. This book subjects that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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Processes of development concerning reconciliation,
rehabilitation and peace-building have become a central theme for global
organizations tasked with intervening in broken and divided societies after
violent conflicts. What can reunite populations divided by war and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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